I've been a musician for a while now - up until quite recently my weapon of choice was a bass guitar, but having fallen down the rabbit hole that is modular synthesis I have a new way to make noise ...

I started out the usual way: buy a rack and a bunch of modules (ADSR, VCA, VCO, that kind of thing) and start making noises. Then I discovered the DIY scene and it all snowballed from there - sequencers, filters, logic modules ... four racks full of noisemakers later and I'm still not done.

I'm a big believer in the KISS principle - Keep It Simple, Stupid! If you want all-singing, all-dancing multifunction modules then this really isn't the place for you - I prefer to build modules to do one thing and (hopefully) do it well. This is a rule I follow when I develop software, and hardware is no different.

The stuff you'll find here will generally be 'excess' from a run of boards - the underlying designs will have been tested and known to work, all you need to do is source appropriate componentry and do a build. I'm not going to make any claims that I'm the world's best circuit designer, but hey, if it ain't broke ...

For the really curious, despite working as a software developer I do have a PhD in theoretical physics, specifically the numerical simulation of explosions. It isn't nearly as interesting as you might imagine :-p